We are a professional intellectual
property rights consultant
organization, mainly deal with the
global domain name registration and
internet intellectual property rights
protection.

On March. 24th, 2010, we formally
received an application from YYY, they
applied to register the internet brand
“ZZZ” and some relevant domain names
with our organization.

During our preliminary investigation,
we found that these domain names'
keyword is fully identical with your
trademark. Therefore, we need to
confirm with you, whether you
consigned YYY to
register these domain names with us or
not? Or, is YYY
your business partner or distributor?
If you have no relationship with this
company, we assume that they have
other purposes to obtain these domain
names.

Currently, we have already suspended
this company's application temporarily
due to the seriousness of this isuue.
In order to avoid the vicious domain
name grabbing, please let the
relevant person make a confirmation
with me via telephone or email as soon
as possible. Thank you for your
support to our work!

5 Answers
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Obviously they want you to respond to their e-mail, followed by "money please" as they attempt to "protect your domain from being unscrupulously used by others" or even get you to sign up for a domain name through them.. but then who knows if they actually register a domain name for you or not; either way it is cold calling in an attempt to get you to purchase something you never needed.

In New Zealand I once received a bill for annual renewal of my domain name. But when I looked more closely at the domain I was "renewing" it turned out to be the "org.nz" version of my ".co.nz" domain. And instead of "renewing" I was actually "purchasing" a new domain. To be honest, I wouldn't have even looked at the fine print except for the fact that the fee appeared to be in the order of 5-10 times the standard registry cost.

The world is awash with con men. The technology age makes it easy for them to get in touch and seem to know far more than any ordinary person should know about you.

Companies have no right to prevent anyone registering a domain name with their trademark, as long as the domain registrant doesn't attempt to violate that trademark (e.g. selling products called the same as the trademark) or register the domain to try and extort money out of the trademark holder (e.g. we own the website that's the same as your trademark, give us £10m for it.)

i register a domain with hosting plan before and the domain was change to another doamin name due to some reason, now i want to ask if it is possible to make the hosting plan from the old domain that is no more active to the new domain.is it possible?